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Download kindle ↠ The Emancipist Þ 1048 pages ✓ dogsalonbristol ↠ ✻ [EPUB] ✰ The Emancipist By Veronica Geoghegan Sweeney ❅ – Dogsalonbristol.co.uk NEW YORK TIMES Impressively researched and detailed account of Ireland's sufferings under the English A gripping stE of the most turbulent times in the history of Ireland and Australia This Kindle edition is the first to contain material left out of the original publication and reintroduces beloved characters to new generations of readers interested in Irish and Australian history and incidents that helped shape both nation This is my favourite book of all time I reread it once a year I think the central character of this novel is the best drawn in fiction there is just something about Aidan O’Brien that keeps me coming back You can identify with him as a man He’s complex and he makes mistakes yet there is no doubting his courage or tenacity But saying this sometimes you don’t like him Members of my family who’ve read the book feel the same he’s just very real It’s hard to believe the book was written by a woman and when she was uite young in her twenties I believe Actually all the characters are well drawn and believable Aidan is the central character and you go one a journey with him Not only across the world – Ireland to Australia – but an inward psychological journey as well He and all the characters in the book change and develop as time passesAlong with this interest in the characters there is the well researched history If you’re Irish like I am the descriptions of the Famine are sometimes difficult to read it’s so believable and really upsetting knowing one’s ancestors went through this Yet the author doesn’t preach just lets the facts speak for themselves Anyone who has any Irish blood in them should read this book – it explains a lot about Irish history and even about the Irish character We’ve been forged by what we have gone through over centuries and while still writing a great story the author has managed to convey this aspect as wellI really like the prison scenes and the scenes of the escape into the Tasmanian or Van Diemen’s Land as it was bush Also it was new to me that the British Government really tried to rehabilitate prisoners if it could A lot of them never reoffended when they were released I read that the author’s own family contains a few convicts and maybe she had word of mouth descriptions passed down to her The scenes of Aidan trying to reinvent himself as a kind of lord of the manor towards the end of the book are sometimes very funny I don’t know whether he succeeded all that well You get the feeling the boy from Killaloe County Clare is still in there somewhere trying to prove himselfThe women in the book are drawn very well The character Maura is sometimes unlikable but you always know what prompts her to act the way she does The real heroines of the book are Anna Berrima and Aidan’s mother I really liked his mother Mary and the love story between her and Corrie O’Neill There are no badly drawn or clichéd characters in the book all are strong but they make mistakes too and are complex though no one in the book is as complex as Aidan The strength of the book is that you can imagine Aidan in any situation and just know how he would reactI think anyone interested in Irish history – or any history would love this book I’m really glad to see that it’s on Kindle now as it runs to well over a thousand pages It’s a big family saga of a novel but it’s never boring It would appeal to men readers as well as women who like a good story and well researched good writingIn short one of those books that always stays with you even years after you’ve finished it Not a book that you give away One you keep on the shelf and come back to like an old friend